Reds will likely lay low in winter meetings

9:18 PM,
Dec. 8, 2013

While Reds general manager Walt Jocketty hasn't closed the door on Shin-Soo Choo, left, returning to Cincinnati, it would have to be an act of extreme generosity on the part of either Choo and his agent Scott Boras or owner Bob Castellini. The Enquirer/Jeff Swinger

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Baseball's winter meetings begin Monday at Disney World's Swan and Dolphin, and while money has been freely flowing in Major League Baseball in the week leading up to the meetings, the Reds are unlikely to be major players in the bidding wars for the top free agents.

Former Red Shin-Soo Choo is the top free agent on the market after the signings of Robinson Cano and Jacoby Ellsbury, and while Reds general manager Walt Jocketty hasn't closed the door on Choo returning to Cincinnati, it would have to be an act of extreme generosity on the part of either Choo and his agent Scott Boras or owner Bob ...